The API industry has sounded the "innovation-driven" clarion call; upstream will see business opportunities

APIs are an important part of the pharmaceutical industry and are at a critical link in the upstream of the pharmaceutical industry chain supply chain
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The development foundation of China's API industry is relatively good, and the market scale continues to grow.
However, in recent years, with the continuous improvement of environmental protection requirements, more and more small and medium-sized API manufacturers have been eliminated
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Under the new situation where the quality of API products is improving and green and low-carbon become the main theme of development, the clarion call for the innovation and development of the API industry has been sounded, and it is expected that the upstream equipment industry will also usher in business opportunities
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The API industry has sounded the "innovation-driven" horn.
The upstream will see business opportunities (picture source: Pharmaceutical Network) The API industry has sounded the "innovation-driven" horn.
It is green and low-carbon, and the other is quality improvement
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On the one hand, the API industry is a highly polluting industry, and the production process requires the use of a variety of organic solvents, resulting in high emission intensity of the "three wastes", which has a huge impact on the environment and personnel
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Beginning in 2018, China has imposed an environmental protection tax.
This policy has promoted the transformation and upgrading of the API industry, moving towards green development, and speeding up the elimination of low-end production capacity of high-polluting, high-energy-consuming APIs
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Affected by this, the number of raw material pharmaceutical companies in China has plummeted, and output has also dropped significantly
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Data show that the annual domestic output of APIs dropped from 3.
478 million tons in 2017 to 2.
622 million tons in 2019.
From January to September 2021, China's output of APIs reached 2.
24 million tons
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On the other hand, as a key ingredient of drugs, APIs are closely related to drug supply and price stability
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However, in recent years, there have been constant news about the supply of some APIs in short supply, the price increase of downstream preparations, and even the suspension of supply.
This further shows that the API industry should not only strengthen supervision, but also innovate products, increase the proportion of high value-added products, and increase the proportion of raw materials.
Drug production efficiency and quality control level, thereby reducing drug production costs and ensuring stable supply of products
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The industry pointed out that there are still challenges in my country’s API industry that the industrial structure needs to be optimized, the industrial layout needs to be improved, and the green production level needs to be improved.

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In order to meet the requirements for high-quality development, on November 9 this year, the two ministries and commissions issued the "Notice on the Implementation Plan for Promoting the High-quality Development of the API Industry", which clearly put forward strict energy efficiency and environmental protection standards, promote green and low-carbon technology and equipment, and create green supplies.
Important principles and main tasks such as the chain, which will further help China's API companies to improve the level of green and low-carbon development, and promote the transformation of the API industry from large to strong
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Under the guidance of a series of policy constraints, green, low-carbon, high-quality development of the API industry will be promoted, but this work is a major project that requires gradual progress
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Whether it is to improve product quality or take a green and low-carbon development path, the "innovation-driven" clarion call for the API industry has been sounded
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Upstream ushering in new business opportunities It has become a trend to accelerate the transformation and upgrading of the API industry, and in order to meet the needs of upgrading, the demand for green, environmentally friendly, and energy-efficient API equipment by API companies will also grow rapidly
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In this context, it is expected that relevant API equipment companies will usher in new business opportunities and have broad room for growth in the future
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In the face of new opportunities, powerful API equipment manufacturers have taken the lead
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For example, equipment companies have grasped the trend of green energy conservation and environmental protection early on, emphasized the awareness of innovation, and improved their own market competitiveness by creating products with independent intellectual property rights
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It is reported that the company has developed a new type of centrifugal extractor in response to the shortcomings of the current traditional centrifugal extractor.
Under the same processing capacity, the power consumption is only 10% to 30% of the traditional annulus type model, which has won the favor of the market
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There are also API equipment manufacturers benefiting from the promotion of environmental protection policies and continuously increasing R&D investment to create environmentally friendly and energy-saving API production equipment
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According to reports, the company has also established a special environmental protection company and a supporting engineering experiment center to establish the core elements of energy-saving and environmentally-friendly product design, so that the R&D and production equipment conforms to the green development trend, and it has also received a good response in the market
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For API manufacturers, with the continuous pursuit of energy efficiency and high quality in the upstream equipment industry, API companies are expected to obtain more economic benefits, because after the improvement of energy efficiency, the operating costs of API companies will also decrease and product competition Power will be improved
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It is worth mentioning that, overall, compared with imported equipment, domestic API equipment still has shortcomings in terms of energy saving, efficiency improvement, safety, and automation design
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With the advancement of relevant favorable policies, domestic API equipment companies also need to transform and upgrade in the direction of more efficient, energy-saving, and automated, in order to seize development opportunities and help the API industry to develop better
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